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getty image Jesse Williams has a new fan — and, like him, she has a way with words. Inspired by the Grey’s Anatomy star’s powerful speech at the 2016 BET Awards, Alice Walker penned a poem that she posted on her website. “Here It Is” addresses “fear of blackness in white culture,” according to the […]

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Legendary poet, Pulitzer-prize winning author and activist, Alice Walker, who has also been a longtime advocate for the rights of Palestinians in the face of…

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An Israeli website is reporting that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker has forbidden a new Hebrew translation of her book “The Color Purple,” stating that Israel is guilty of worse “apartheid” than the “US apartheid” in which she grew up. According to Israeli business website Globes, Walker informed Israeli publisher Yediot Books, an affiliate of […]

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*Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and still a widely taught and talked about novel, is finally coming out as an e-book, as are most of her other work. But not through a traditional publisher, according to the Associated Press. Open Road Integrated Media, the digital company co-founded two years […]

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*Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1983 and still a widely taught and talked about novel, is finally coming out as an e-book, as are most of her other work. But not through a traditional publisher, according to the Associated Press. Open Road Integrated Media, the digital company co-founded two years […]